THE EDGE OF PHYSICS: DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONTIERS OF COSMOLOGY
Book ID/图书代码： 13000510B35284
English Summary/英文概要： Physics is in crisis. For more than two centuries, our understanding of the laws of nature expanded rapidly. But in the last few decades, we’ve made astonishingly little progress. What will finally break the impasse and get physics back on track? In this timely and original book, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy sets out in search of the world’s most audacious physics experiments: the telescopes and detectors that promise to shed new light on things like dark matter, dark energy, and the phenomenon of quantum gravity (which string theory tries to explain). Reporting back from some of the most inhospitable and dramatic research sites on our planet - from the Atacama Desert in Chile, to the Indian Observatory in the Himalayas, to the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica to deep within an abandoned iron mine in Minnesota - Ananthaswamy weaves together stories about the people and places at the heart of this research, while beautifully explaining the problems that scientists are trying to solve. In so doing, he provides a unique portrait of the universe and our quest to understand it. An atmospheric, engaging and illuminating read, ’To The Edge of Physics’ depicts science as a human process and brings cosmology - with all its rarefied concepts - back down to earth.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在这深奥的原著中，科学作家阿尼尔•阿南塔斯瓦米借用望远镜和探测器来解答现代宇宙学中的最大问题。为什么宇宙在以一个惊人的速度膨胀？宇宙中近四分之一的"黑暗物质"基本物质是什么？为什么宇宙会出现生命体征？除了我们人类自己以外还有其他生物吗？
阿南塔斯瓦米很快就发现自己身处在地球遥远的两端，甚至是更为危险的地方。来到阿塔卡马沙漠（位于智利北部），地球上最冷，最为干燥的地方，这里甚至寸草不生。令人赞叹的万里无云的天空和干燥的气候，让天文学家收集到星系几十亿光年之外的图像。阿南塔斯瓦米带领我们去欧洲最为壮观的南部帕拉纳尔山的最大望远镜处，四个巨大的圆顶每晚面向夜空敞开，犹如“醒着的巨龙”一般。
他还带领我们来到明尼苏达州被遗弃的铁矿山在深处，在那里有物理学家片寻不到的半英里厚岩石罩下难以捉摸的黑暗物质粒子。向东南极冰盖前行，工程师正在钻这个星球上最为清晰的1.5英里结冰层。他们正在建造世界上最大的中微子探测器，运用爱因斯坦的广义相对论的，最终可以融汇量子物理学。
在这些和其他著名的科学研究网站工作的人们的故事中 — — 从西伯利亚的贝加尔湖，到喜玛拉雅山脉上印度天文观测台，直至大型强子对撞机地下装置— — 这一切的一切，都已全新的方式，在让世人重新了解宇宙形象。这部恢宏大气，动人的和富有启发性的读物、让深不可测的宇宙学以一种更接地气和形式为大众所接受。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：Rights sold: UK (Duckworth), US (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), German (Spektrum), Greek (Travlos), Italian (Codice), Japanese (Kawadeshobo), Korean (Humanist), Polish (Proszynski), Russian (Eksmo) An accomplished and timely overview of modern cosmology and particle astrophysics. Ananthaswamy’s characterizations of the many physicists he meets are on the mark... Conveys that cutting-edge science is a human endeavour – NATURE
A remarkable narrative that combines fundamental physics with high adventure... Ananthaswamy is a worthy guide for both journeys – NEW SCIENTIST
Stirring, scenic narrative... Ananthaswamy journeys to several geographically and scientifically extreme outposts, and returns not only with engaging portraits of the men and women who work there, but also a vibrant glimpse of how cutting-edge research is actually performed. Part history lesson, part travelogue, part adventure story, THE EDGE OF PHYSICS is a wonder-steeped page-turner – SEED magazine
These experiments and others are heroic in every sense, and Ananthaswamy captures their excitement – and the personalities of the scientists behind them – with enthusiasm and insight – PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sure to appeal to general readers interested in science books without the philosophy and mathematics found in drier, more academic physics titles – LIBRARY JOURNAL
About the Author/作者介绍： 阿尼尔.安南萨斯瓦弥，研究物理学，神经系统科学和气候变化的科学作者。他是伦敦《新科学家杂志》的记者和顾问，也是《物理学边缘》的作者（此书被印度企鹅图书出版为《理性边缘》）格兰汉姆.劳顿，《新科学家杂志》的副编辑。ANIL ANANTHASWAMY is a consultant editor of New Scientist in London. He has worked at the magazine in various capacities since 2000, most recently as deputy news editor, and has written more than 250 news and features articles. He is also a contributor to National Geographic News. He studied electronics, electrical and computer engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Bachelor of Technology), and the University of Washington, Seattle (Master of Science), and worked as a software engineer in Silicon Valley before training as a journalist in the University of California Santa Cruz’s renowned science writing programme.
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